Treat the Poor with a Holy Respect

Listen here at 96Five Hello, I’m Donna Power, the founder of Brisbane-based charity, Project Kindy.  We fundraise to provide essential support for locally-run kindergartens in rural Malawi, Africa, to give children in extreme poverty access to life-saving and life-changing pre-primary education.  You can learn more about our work and our story at projectkindy.com Have you …

Responding to the great call of St John Paul II to build a civilisation of love

Mothering, pregnancy and birth are the most intimate expressions of creative collaboration with God. I liken a mother’s “yes” to life to the self-donation of Jesus Christ’s gift of himself in the Eucharist. It’s a visible sign of God’s kingdom on earth.  Co-creating with God’s own design to raise a child is a most honourable …

A Chat with a Lady Tradie Draws us Both Towards God’s Fatherly Love

Can you think of a time that you had an unexpectedly deep conversation with a stranger?  Pastoral encounters and challenges can happen at all sorts of times, hey.  Recently, a lady-tradie was helping me fix my home.  One day, we were working alongside each other for quite a while, and she and I got talking.  …